Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait / Edition 1

by Guadalupe Valdes

Overview

Con Respeto is the story of ten Mexican immigrant families and how each goes about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. Guadalupe Valde's brings to life the everyday worlds of these families and describes in detail how they viewed themselves as parents as they tried to adjust to a new life and prepare their children to become competent adults. She examines what is commonly believed to be a disinterest in education by Mexican parents and shows, through extensive interviews, as well as first-hand observation, that these hardworking families are both rich and strong in family values and bring with them clear views of what constitutes success and failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900807735267
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	06/15/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Guadalupe Valdés is a Professor in the School of Education and in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. She received the 2022 LRA Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This rich and absorbing study of Mexican parents in border communities leads to more complex, rather than single-minded, solutions to school success. Valdés sees to the center of things and deftly questions the merit of typical educational interventions aimed at promoting school success.... these interventions, grounded in mainstream values, do more harm than good. They do not show respect for deeply ingrained familistic values—the cultural capital that immigrant parents bring with them on their backs and in their hearts from their homeland; and they devalue the social and linguistic competence of immigrant parents and their children....Valdés does not provide solutions. She does, however, lead the search with her strong but cautious narrative voice for a sufficiently complex and multi-leveled understanding of the challenges facing families who move across borders as immigrants.”
—From the Foreword by Carol Stack

Editorial Reviews

This excellent ethnography . . . raises issues deserving serious consideration.”

—MultiCultural Review

From the Publisher